Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-11-06
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iect from practical man, who has had
experience and has the dehornsd herd
70 be seen. Those persons who have
theoretically condemned what we
wrote on tails subject in Familiar
Talks should pause 70 investigate
before eharacteriSing this practice as
" barbarous"
We need do many things that are
seemingly /" barbarons, such, for I'M
stance, as taking the lives Of animals
bat viii any sane man say that this IS
wrong This practice Is just a. bene-
fetal, just as necessary a. the cases
cited. and viii eventually become as
general. Dehorning. a. Mr.. Whitney
says. " has come 20 stay;"
PABLIA, w. T.. Oct. 81. 1887
Mn. +. MERKER,
Ag. Editor PosT-fsTKLLIeKScER
DEAR sIR-Fly time Is past and de-
horning time has come. can hardly
understand how any one who has ever
handled cattle can ask the question,
What do you want the horns Oh
forfr bus still many do. Probably
from one hundred 70 two hundred hu-
man beings are manned OF killed In
the United States every year, 10 say
nothing Of the almost countless num-
Der Of cattle, horses, colts, hogs and
sheep that are gOred more or less Sc
verefy or killed outright.
will give q little OF my own expert
ence, as believe that Is what you
want went 20 Oregon tive years ago
20 buy COWS. OF course, they were
+" gentle cows, and not " wild beasts. T"
I got them together aud drove them %
the stock yards IN Portland, and gave
them hay. The yards were large and
they were hungry and tired. after an
all-day drive. bat they spent more time
in hooking each other than In eating
OF resting. ! CARED them at e.m.,
putting them 50 closely together that
/ they could not get a good chance Co
use their villainous horns to advantage,
but not 50 close but they could new
1 and then give their next neighbor an
ugly rake. ! got them % Seattle about
! ID or n PIN, aud divided them up,
putting only seven or eight IN a yard.
and gave them hay again. Did they
eat their hay afteF 80 long fasting
Their greatest pleasure seemed 90 be
20 gouge each other. I bought lot OF
/ brass knobs and put on their horns 50
,shey could not hurt each other quite
80 badly, but l could not keep them
on, and they did not amount 20 much,
either. | could not get = gate wide
enough for two cows 90 90 through al
/ a time. and the gate seemed to be the
most convenient place for them 10 stop
when you were trying % drive them.
/ IL took two or three men 90 get them
/ into the barn and their stanchions
| without some Of them getting the hair
taken Of and long cuts In the skin.
Only two COWS sc most could drink out
Of trough, Sc, sc.
I was completely disgusted with
4 horus and began 10 read upcn the wsy
/ 10 get nd 81 them. To bend them Cd
would take too long, 70 take them Oh
| the calves would not help the matter
with the old ones
i sens 81 cents 20 n. II. Haaf, 81 Al
Sinson, H., for his book telling how q
hold them, where % cut, &c. He had
mem proeecuted BY the = Society fOI
l The Prevention Of Cruelty - Animals,
4 nNI. UItNl . AAAAA AAr ~AaAAf - -
louitted. . He proved By the vetSrinA-
Rams that the operation was not very
rainfnl, or not al all dangerous. HI
could prove BY hurdreds q bis neigh
bors that he had dehorned thousands
AZ cattle with not the loss q q slngi'
| one. That Il cut In the right plac'
thgre would be scarcely any needing
no loss Of appetite, hut very little lea
| al mIlk, land that only for = day O
twol nothing bad following the opera
ton IN any way. read the tessimon,
1 % Pref. Henry, q Wisconsin Agrical
tural Coiie<e, and many ctherS Al
were SATISFIED. and would hayeno NOR
horns.
II bought q small Butchers saw 70
. Is cents, dxed my rope a. per dlrec
dora. aud heGnn about an. Mhel
I washed up for dlnnef / haq g heal
| Il sauleys, have dehoEnsd a lot sinc
. Also. Tkey vii 80 - eating y ~
minute after ne horns a. 81 a
mho hasa haen alQos thalA an y t1He